Over the past decade or so he’s been putting out papers with a model that’s only a slight change to the standard model - that at the point of the big bang there was an expansion in both directions of time leading to a CPT symmetric universe.
He and his coauthors have managed to address a number of the major outstanding unsolved challenges in cosmology with only this theory, and are perhaps only a few years away from having some of its testable predictions verified. And at least one of the recent CERN projects that would have falsified the idea came up short just the other year.
If he lives long enough, he may well end up with a Nobel for his efforts.
It’s probably my favorite bit of theoretical cosmology these days.
You might enjoy this recent lecture from Neil Turok: https://youtu.be/rsI_HYtP6iU
Over the past decade or so he’s been putting out papers with a model that’s only a slight change to the standard model - that at the point of the big bang there was an expansion in both directions of time leading to a CPT symmetric universe.
He and his coauthors have managed to address a number of the major outstanding unsolved challenges in cosmology with only this theory, and are perhaps only a few years away from having some of its testable predictions verified. And at least one of the recent CERN projects that would have falsified the idea came up short just the other year.
If he lives long enough, he may well end up with a Nobel for his efforts.
It’s probably my favorite bit of theoretical cosmology these days.